Quote bren2k="bren2k"Indeed; according to the interview, Sale's view is that if a player says he's unhappy, the right thing to do is let him go - so if one of their rivals from the lesser code taps up one of their players, he need only say he's unhappy, and they'll shrug their shoulders and release him from his contract?
In summary - they thought they could bulldoze lowly Cas, they were served with legal papers, and folded because they knew their case had little chance of success. It doesn't do anything in terms of legal precedent, but it perhaps sends a message that RL clubs are not quite the pushovers that Sale assumed.'"
In the aftermath of this case, RL does seem to be losing the publicity battle, with Sale (and Diamond in particular), claiming that they got their man for 5k more than the original plan and the most uncomfortable aspect of this, is that, there is nothing to prevent other players "leaving" the game in just the same unsavoury way that Solomona did.
